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Did climate change cause the Salem witch trials?
A little ice age around the time of the 1692 Salem witch trials led to crop failures and shortages of fish, which put everyone in a mood to find a scapegoat, says a newly resurfaced 2004 Harvard thesis by economist Emily Oster.
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People sitting in warm rooms are more likely to believe in global warming
All this time we’ve been trying to make the public understand climate change using science and logic, and it turns out we could have just made everyone wear sweaters. People’s beliefs about climate change are closely tied to the temperature they’ve recently experienced — so much so that, as Justin Gillis of the New York […]
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Kangaroo genitals are weirder than you ever thought possible
Animal lovers, listen up: Critters are cute and everything, but you should know that nature is fucking weird. And nothing fucks weirder than kangaroos.
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Forest service to explode frozen cows
Last fall, cows that were grazing on federal land in Colorado took refuge in a cabin, then froze to death or were trapped by cows' general inability to figure out how to exit thngs. Now their carcasses are thousand-pound blocks of frozen meat, and rangers aren't sure how to dislodge them.
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Moscow looks awesome from space
NASA’s image of the day today is a night shot of Moscow, seen framed by the Aurora Borealis and the solar panels of the International Space Station.
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In Washington, prison inmates raise bees, frogs, and butterflies
When you think “prison,” you don’t usually think “idyllic bower of nature’s most rare and beautiful specimens.” But at the Washington State Department of Corrections, inmates can skip the license-plate making and spend their days cultivating endangered local animals, insects, and plants. Participants in the Sustainable Prisons Project raise Oregon spotted frogs, Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies, […]
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Penguin lives the dream, bites Newt Gingrich
Gingrich was bitten on the finger by the penguin at the St. Louis zoo.
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On Titanic anniversary, James Cameron says climate change is our menacing iceberg
The starving millions will be the ones most affected by the next iceberg that we hit, which is going to be climate change, says Cameron, director of the movie Titanic.
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U.S. and Maldives endure the long, hot March of climate change
In an election season sure to be marked by more extreme weather, the Maldives' Mohamed Nasheed, an outspoken climate activist, fights to get back his presidency as Obama tries to hold onto his.
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The only good coal is coal left in the ground
Is it important for U.S activists to fight coal exports? Damn straight it is.
